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3~ any development .standards that pertain to the area and to make recommendations to the Planning Soard and to the Board of Commissioners far revisions to the ordinance and to the standards. The members of this advisory committee would include members of the planning staff, Orange County Kealth Department, the North Carolina Department of Transpor*ation and other agencies. 3. Ordinance 6.3.1 single residences per lot - this section of the Ordinance allow only one residence per lot regardless of lot size. The Cheeks Advisory Council recommends this be changed, especially in cases where mobile home users are building permanent residences, so they may live in their mobile home while building a permanent house. Collins noted this would necessitate a change in the Ordnance because the Ordinance does not permit two residences on one lot. The Planning staff has prepared a zoning ordinance amendment for the Planning Board's consideration vrhich mould allow the temporary use of a mobile home until such time a permanent residence is constructed. 4. Ordinance 6.16.6 - the present Ordinance allows no sales of goods on premises e.ccept those produced on such premises. The Cheeks To~,mship Advisory would like to change this to permit incidental sales such as those items sold in a beauty shop. Collins indicated that because the Cheeps Advisory Council did not present any recommendations to the Planning Department on September 17, th Planning Board reaffirmed its previoius recommendation on the proposed zoning of CheeY,s Tocanship based on the original plan as presented at the public hearing. Valerie Greenberg noted that the consideration of any report from the Cheeks Advisory Council would be a violation of procedure and requested that it not be considered. Commissioner C~7hitted commented on the four recommendations from the Cheeks Advisory Council. 1. prezoning would be contrary to the practices that Orange County has established in adopting the land use plan. 2. Agrees that this Development Advisory Committee should be activated. 3. Valid, and should be considered by the Planning Board for Public Hearing. 4. Valid, and should be considered by the Planning Board for Public Hearing. Commissioner t•7alker expressed the importance of prezoning and voiced approval of zoning Cheeks as the land use plan indicates. Chair tti'illhoit favors same prezoning in areas where it is _. clearly an appropriate use and could be used as an incentive for economic development but in order to protect the residences zoning must be done on ----- individual parcels. The ordinance provides a procedure for rezoning land to industrial if certain conditions are met. Comrlissianer Lloyd ouestioned 11.6 of the Ordinance erhich states that a noncomforming commercial or industrial structure destroyed 60~ ar more may only be reconstructed in accordance with the regulation of the district in erhich it is located is similar to that contained in the Minimum Housing Code and would recommend that this be changed to permit rebuilcing under the same criteria. He also questioned 11.5 about the cessation of use of a structure. Section 11.9 indicates that if a nonconforming use ceases for more than I80 days in a two year perzod subser,•uent use shall